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One of the two main strands of Christopher Nolan’s film “Oppenheimer” follows the community of scientists who come to be cloistered in the high desert wilderness of New Mexico working to develop an atomic bomb. The Los Alamos setting for the bomb-devising sections of the movie serves the filmmaker’s purpose of exploring the moral qualms and emotional burdens suffered by people creating such a terrible weapon, primarily those of J. Robert Oppenheimer, compellingly played by Cillian Murphy.